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U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan during WW2

United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078188
Film tracing activities of General Douglas MacArthur from defeat of Japan in World War II through Korean War (1950)

Highlights covering General Douglas MacArthur, from 1945 through 1950. The Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Several Japanese bowing towards the Palace. General Douglas MacArthur exits a car in Tokyo and walks up steps to enter his headquarters in Japan. Emperor Hirohito walks between two U.S. sentries, as he leaves a building and enters his limousine. Japanese citizens form lines on streets to cast ballots in election.Several Japanese women voting. Exterior of the Japanese National Diet building. Interior with representatives seated. A farmer behind a cultivator, pulled by an ox, in a rice paddy. Japanese school children waving American and Japanese flags together, as MacArthur leaves his Tokyo headquarters, walks down steps, and enters car. MacArthur saluting at a military ceremony, where his wife, Jean MacArthur, and son Arthur are spectators. Explosions in hills, from American Patton tank shelling North Korean positions in Korean War. American soldiers firing a mortar; infantry advancing along sides of road; and American tank commander rendering first aid to wounded comrade. United States Air Force (USAF) C-47 transport aircraft ferrying American troops into Korea, from Japan. American infantry marching across a bridge; firing mortars and rifles; and advancing on foot across fields. American troops on trucks followed by a Patton medium tank. MacArthur meeting troops on river boat; riding in a jeep; being briefed by U.S. officer in the field; examining a knocked out tank; and decorating U.S. troops in winter. Closeup of MacArthur in winter gear with his circle of five stars pined into a fur cap. Views of U.S. amphibious landing at Inchon (or Incheon) in Korean War. MacArthur watching from a ship offshore. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, reading message of appreciation to General MacArthur and shaking hands with him at the podium. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, pinning a medal on General MacArthur,on Wake Island in October, 1950.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033588
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer travels to the Imperial Palace during his visit to Tokyo, Japan.

West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer talks with Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi during his visit to Tokyo, Japan. Badges of the Japanese Imperial Order of the Rising Sun. Konrad Adenauer is bestowed with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. Chancellor Adenauer shakes hand with Japanese Premier Kishi. Other people sit with them. Adenauer travels to the Imperial Palace in a horse-drawn carriage reserved for dignitaries. Adenauer walks with Japanese dignitaries at the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). Adenauer sits with Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako.

Date: 1960, March 28
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055172
A group of American soldiers talk to a few Japanese maidens at the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, Japan.

United States soldiers at the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, Japan. A view from a seventh-floor window of the Meiji Building. A group of American soldiers talks to a few Japanese maidens. An American soldier and a Japanese girl playfully tease each other. The soldiers sit with Japanese girls near the outer most wall of the Imperial Palace grounds (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Tokyo. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, November
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060709
Firemen on a fireboat in the sea, Tokyo, Japan.

Japanese fire fighters on a fireboat at harbor in Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War II. The fireboat demonstrates during firefighting exercise at the estuary of Sumida River near Kachidoki Bridge, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo. Also visible, in the background, are the semicircular roof of Tsukiji Hongan-ji (3 Chome-15-1 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-8435, Japan) and the quays of the very famous The Tsukiji fish market.

Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027722
Allied Forces land In Japan depicting the surrender of Japan to the Allied forces in World War 2

Titled 'Allied Forces land In Japan'. USS Missouri leading a convoy of 400 warships into the Bay of Tokyo. Admiral Halsey of the U.S. Navy smiles. Huge guns on the ship. A U.S. Army Air Force base at the island of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Army Air Force plane lands at a Japanese Air Force base near Tokyo. Officers of the Japanese Air Force surrender to the officials of the Allied forces. U.S. National Flag hoisted at Tokyo Airdrome. Base operations sign there for the 3rd Airdrome Squadron. Japanese Military Police marching at Hazuki Airfield. Scenes of destroyed planes and facilities on the ground at Hazuki airfield. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the fleet of Allied Forces congratulates forces on the USS Missouri. Japanese ship alongside USS San Diego. Japanese men climb into the ship and give navigation instructions to the San Diego and Task Force 31. Many sunken Japanese ships in harbor at Yokosuko. Japanese ship Nagato and crew taken into custody by the Navy and its new captain Thomas Flynn.

Date: 1945, September
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035986